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Title: A general system of surgery in three parts : Containing the doctrine and management, I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers, of all kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders. The whole illustrated with thirty eight copper-plates, exhibiting all the operations, instruments, bandages, and improvements, according to the modern and most approved practice : to which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery : with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Being a work of thirty years experience
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758 Mynde, J
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgical instruments and apparatus Bandages and bandaging Surgery General Surgery Bandages
Publisher: London : Printed for W. Innys at the West-End os St. Paul's ... (and four others)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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on ever be unfumifhed with a Pieceof Vitriolutn Romatium, to take down luxuriant Flefh, and flop Hemorrhages ;but if you are without Vitriol,, its corrofive Intention will be anfwered byAliimen ufium, Mercurius pr^cipitatus ruber, or Lapis Infernalis, or any othercorrofive Medicine, which will alfo ferve to make IfTues or open AbfcefTes, orto perform any Work of that kind. But the Surgeon fhould always have inReadinefs a certain quantity of fcrapd Lint, that he may be able to give im-mediate aiTiflance to wounded Perfons ; fince, if he is unprepared, they may beeafily taken off with an Hjemorrhage, which Circumftance ought alfo to prevailftrongly with a Surgeon, never to be entirely unprovided with Bandages.KcoeiTary XXXVIII. Having already defcribed the principal Inftruments as well ast^n!*ior Medicines with which a Surgeon muft of necefTity be provided, it remains toSurgeon, examine into the Qualifications that he ought to be Mafter of, to render him ufeful P/.u/// ,^
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INTRODUCTION. 13 ufeful in his Profeffion. The Agility of Body, and Refolution of Mind that ^if^i^are neceflliry to a Surgeon, are elegantly defcribed by Celfus : A Surgeon, Refolution (fays he) ought to be in his flill Vigour, to have a ftrong, fteddyhand, never °^- given to tremble, and to be as ready with his left hand as his right ; to have a quick, clear Sight, an intrepid Mind, void of all Tendernefs, fo as not to be at all moved by the Outcries of his Patient; to ufe no more hafte than the cafe requires, nor to cut lefs than is neceflary •, but he fhould aft in all re- fpefts as if he was entirely unaffefted by his Patients complaints. Bat atthe fame time, I would have him behave with fuch caution as to be guilty of noAft of Rafhnefs or Cruelty, and very careftilly avoid giving unneceffary Pain. XXXIX. The two Qualifications that I have juft recited, are by no means skiii infufficient of themfelves to render the Surgeon perfeft -, but there are others alfo Anatomy.which Celf

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